Arabic is one of the most spoken languages in the world, with over 400 million speakers. Historically, it has played a significant role in religious, literary and academic traditions. However, in an ...

Across Europe, North America, and beyond, many learners are heritage speakers or descendants of Arabic-speaking families. Their motivation is deeply personal: connecting with grandparents, ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham Sarah Wilson and Wajiha Mekki students Wajiha Mekki and Sarah Wilson are among the 500 students out of 5,000 applicants who have been selected for the United States ...

Spanish remains the language most frequently spoken by English-learners in U.S. schools by a wide margin, with roughly 76 percent of the nation’s 5 million English-learners speaking Spanish, but the ...

Do you ever feel scared to speak in English? Lots of people find speaking a different language stressful. Beth and Pippa talk ...

Perhaps one of the stumbling blocks in the West is Arabic, the language of Islam. The artful and artistic language can take much longer to learn than many languages. Arabic, spoken by about 250 ...

Speech recognition technology is building a bridge between humans and machines, but not so much for the world’s population. Is it a problem? Or a solution? Provided byQatar Foundation Thanks to ...

The new series offers extra tools for learners to help them overcome their anxieties and speak English confidently ...

If you want to build software, it's almost mandatory that you'll need to know the English language since all of the tools rely upon that tongue. Unfortunately, that puts non-English speakers at a huge ...

Thus spoke my Lebanese-born cousin when I made the fatal mistake of saying the word for chicken in fus-ha, or formal Arabic, rather than in the Levantine dialect. Though this happened six years ago, ...